Akarshan Gandotra

Futurist and Developer

Delhi, India Joined on Apr 26, 2018 akarshan.gandotra@gmail.com

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SDE-3 at Innovaccer

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Akarshan Gandotra

Sep 13 '21

System Designing: Data Stores Decisions ft. COWIN

#systemdesigning #database #cache #cowin

7 min read

Akarshan Gandotra

Jul 21 '19

Implementing Least Recently Used Cache Eviction Policy

#cache #distributed #lru

7 min read

Akarshan Gandotra

Jul 4 '19

Let's Brainstorm Backtracking

8 min read

Akarshan Gandotra

May 4

Part 10 — Lessons learned building a Kubernetes Auth Gateway

#lessonslearned #architecture #platformengineering #kubernetes

10 min read

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Akarshan Gandotra

May 4

Part 9 — Operating the gateway: logs, traces, health, and degraded mode

#observability #nginx #kubernetes #sre

9 min read

Akarshan Gandotra

May 4

Part 8 — Making It Fast: Caching, Hot Paths, and Avoiding DB Calls

#performance #caching #go #redis

7 min read

Akarshan Gandotra

May 4

Part 7 — Token Revocation Without Killing Performance

#redis #jwt #performance #go

6 min read

Akarshan Gandotra

May 4

Part 6 — Authorization at Scale: Access Levels, Roles, and Compact Decisions

#authorization #performance #go #auth

8 min read

Akarshan Gandotra

May 4

Part 5 — Multi-tenant auth and routing in Kubernetes

#kubernetes #multitenancy #nginx #auth

8 min read

Akarshan Gandotra

May 4

Part 4 — Endpoint classification: OPEN, AUTHENTICATED, ACCESS_CONTROLLED

#go #architecture #auth #kubernetes

8 min read

Akarshan Gandotra

May 4

Part 3 — Inside the Auth Service: From Token Validator to Policy Decision Point

#go #jwt #auth #architecture

6 min read

Akarshan Gandotra

May 4

Part 1 — Why we built an Auth Gateway instead of putting auth in every service

#nginx #kubernetes #auth #architecture

7 min read

Akarshan Gandotra

May 4

Part 2 — NGINX auth_request: the small primitive that changed everything

#nginx #kubernetes #webdev #auth

9 min read

Akarshan Gandotra

Feb 22

I Dug Up My 10-Year-Old Android App, Dusted It Off With AI, and Put It Back on the Play Store

#showdev #ai #android #sideprojects

2 min read

Akarshan Gandotra

Feb 3

Testing Redis Circuit Breaker with Toxiproxy

#redis #testing #resilience #devops

8 min read

Akarshan Gandotra

Jan 3

LRU vs TinyLFU: Choosing the Right Cache Eviction Strategy 🚀

#lru #tinylfu #cache

8 min read

Akarshan Gandotra

Dec 22 '25

TinyLFU: Why Your JWT Auth Cache Needs Better Eviction 🔐

#algorithms #security #performance #architecture

8 min read

Akarshan Gandotra

Nov 24 '25

The Delete Button Dilemma: When to Soft Delete vs Hard Delete

#architecture #database #designpatterns

5 min read

Akarshan Gandotra

Nov 12 '25

Implementing Multitenancy in Auth0 Using Organizations: A Complete Guide

#saas #security #tutorial #architecture

6 min read

Akarshan Gandotra

Jul 30 '25

FastAPI: request.state vs Context Variables - When to Use What? 🚀

#fastapi #python #webdev #backend

4 min read

Akarshan Gandotra

Jul 14 '25

🔌 Building Resilient Database Operations with Async SQLAlchemy + CircuitBreaker

#aiobreaker #sqlalchemy #fastapi #python

5 min read

Akarshan Gandotra

Jul 10 '25

Supercharging Your API Cache: A Deep Dive into Serialization Performance 🚀

#python #performance #caching #serialization

5 min read

Akarshan Gandotra

Jul 6 '25

Building a Robust Redis Client: Async Redis + Tenacity + Circuit Breaker

#redis #circuitbreaker #asyncio #tenacity

5 min read

Akarshan Gandotra

Jul 1 '25

Building Bulletproof Authentication: A Modern Stateless Session Guide 🔐

8 min read

Akarshan Gandotra

Apr 3 '25

Setting Up Telemetry in Golang

3 min read

Akarshan Gandotra

Jan 17 '24

Asynchronous Database Sessions in FastAPI with SQLAlchemy

#async #fastapi #sqlalchmey #asyncscopedsession

3 min read

Akarshan Gandotra

Aug 19 '23

Converting Any Python Web Framework to FastAPI: A Comprehensive Guide

#fastapi #python #flask #django

5 min read

Akarshan Gandotra

Jul 25 '23

Create Awaitable Constructors with AsyncMixin

#async #fastapi #python #oops

2 min read

Akarshan Gandotra

Jun 15 '23

Deploying RabbitMQ in Kubernetes with Custom Docker Image

#rabbitmq #kubernetes #docker #messaging

4 min read

Akarshan Gandotra

Oct 6 '22

Unlocking 100% of NGINX Ingress Controller

#nginx #ingress #snippet #kubernetes

5 min read

Akarshan Gandotra

Mar 21 '22

The Curious Case of Celery Work-flows

#celery #workflow #python

6 min read

Akarshan Gandotra

Jan 6 '22

Mocking Redis in Python's unittest

#redis #mock #python #unittest

4 min read

Akarshan Gandotra

Jul 22 '21

Discussing Bloom Filters

#bloom #filter #datastructure

4 min read